黑人女演员出演赫敏,《星球大战》创纪录

AS IT IS 2015-12-23 Black Actress Cast in Role of Hermione, Star Wars Sets Records 黑人女演员出演赫敏,《星球大战》创纪录

Black actress from England cast as Hermione

Fans of the “Harry¹ Potter” books and movies got to know actor Emma Watson, who played the character Hermione.

But a new stage play has cast British actress Noma Dumezweni as Harry’s friend, Hermione.

Dumezweni is black, and her family is from Swaziland in Africa.

Dumezweni has an impressive list of credits in theater, film and television.

She won a major award for a role in “A Raisin² in the Sun” and performed in a number of Shakespearean roles.

You can see her work in these videos, where she reads sonnets⁴, or poems, by Shakespeare.

Dumezweni will appear in a London play called “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” that follows the famous characters 19 years after the books ended. All the actors playing Harry, Ron Weasley and Hermione are adults.

It is scheduled to open next July.

The name Hermione appeared over 225,000 times on Twitter on Monday. Dumezweni was endorsed⁶ by J.K. Rowling, the creator of the series.

“White skin was never specified,” Rowling replied to a tweet on Twitter. That reply was re-tweeted over 50,000 times.

Star Wars opening sets records

People lined up all week just to see, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens⁷.” The film set a box-office record for a new movie over the weekend.

Star Wars sold almost $250-million in tickets since it opened Thursday night, beating the record set over the summer by “Jurassic World.”

Around the world, the movie set a record with $529 million in ticket sales. It is an impressive number, considering the film does not open in China until January.

The Chinese market added $90 million to “Jurassic World’s” sales, and “Star Wars” should reach at least that number.

One media analyst⁸ called the opening “the Super Bowl, the World Series and the Kentucky Derby all rolled into one perfectly⁹ realized movie event.”

Most fans and reviewers were happy with the film, giving it a 94 percent “fresh” score on the website RottenTomatoes.com.

Even Hillary Clinton got in on the Star Wars frenzy¹⁰. At the debate among Democratic presidential candidates Saturday, she ended with “may the force be with you.” That is possibly the most famous line from all the Star Wars movies.  

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endorse⁵ – v. to publicly or officially say that you support or approve of (someone or something)

sonnet³ – n. a poem made up of 14 lines that rhyme in a fixed¹¹ pattern

frenzy – n. great and often wild or uncontrolled activity

anticipation¹² – n. a feeling of excitement about something that is going to happen

1 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。

2 raisin   

n.葡萄干

参考例句：

• They baked us raisin bread.他们给我们烤葡萄干面包。
• You can also make raisin scones.你也可以做葡萄干烤饼。

3 sonnet   

n.十四行诗

参考例句：

• The composer set a sonnet to music.作曲家为一首十四行诗谱了曲。
• He wrote a sonnet to his beloved.他写了一首十四行诗，献给他心爱的人。

4 sonnets   

n.十四行诗( sonnet的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Keats' reputation as a great poet rests largely upon the odes and the later sonnets. 作为一个伟大的诗人，济慈的声誉大部分建立在他写的长诗和后期的十四行诗上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He referred to the manuscript circulation of the sonnets. 他谈到了十四行诗手稿的流行情况。 来自辞典例句

5 endorse   

vt.(支票、汇票等)背书，背署；批注；同意

参考例句：

• No one is foolish enough to endorse it.没有哪个人会傻得赞成它。
• I fully endorse your opinions on this subject.我完全拥护你对此课题的主张。

6 endorsed   

vt.& vi.endorse的过去式或过去分词形式v.赞同( endorse的过去式和过去分词 )；在（尤指支票的）背面签字；在（文件的）背面写评论；在广告上说本人使用并赞同某产品

参考例句：

• The committee endorsed an initiative by the chairman to enter discussion about a possible merger. 委员会通过了主席提出的新方案，开始就可能进行的并购进行讨论。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The government has broadly endorsed a research paper proposing new educational targets for 14-year-olds. 政府基本上支持建议对14 岁少年实行新教育目标的研究报告。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 awakens   

v.（使）醒( awaken的第三人称单数 )；（使）觉醒；弄醒；（使）意识到

参考例句：

• The scene awakens reminiscences of my youth. 这景象唤起我年轻时的往事。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• The child awakens early in the morning. 这个小孩早晨醒得早。 来自辞典例句

8 analyst   

n.分析家，化验员；心理分析学家

参考例句：

• What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
• The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。

9 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

10 frenzy   

n.疯狂，狂热，极度的激动

参考例句：

• He was able to work the young students up into a frenzy.他能激起青年学生的狂热。
• They were singing in a frenzy of joy.他们欣喜若狂地高声歌唱。

11 fixed   

adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的

参考例句：

• Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
• Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。

12 anticipation   

n.预期，预料，期望

参考例句：

• We waited at the station in anticipation of her arrival.我们在车站等着，期待她的到来。
• The animals grew restless as if in anticipation of an earthquake.各种动物都变得焦躁不安，像是感到了地震即将发生。